Description

To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade is an account by a British officer, Major Reginald Mitford, of the actions of his unit, the 14th Bengal Lancers, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80) in the period between September 1879 and January 1880. The war began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the conflict ended in May 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which permitted the Afghans to maintain internal ...